What version of SharePoint are you talking about (E.g. WSS, SPS2003,MOSS2007, etc) - there have been at least 7 (more if you count thingslike the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit or Search Server 2008) differentproducts called "SharePoint" since 2001, most of which have differentlicensing requirements.

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